Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-03
~, DAKOTA, FRIDAY JUNE 8, 1887.

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An opera house burned in Paris.
causing the death Of nineteen persons
ind injuring many others.
| John Wanamaller of Philadelphia is 4
Y erect an immense structure in which
| te unmarried men Of his employ may
| find homes.
| Henry Ward Beecher's swords have
| geen presented by Mrs. Beecher to Com,
any G. Thirteenth regiment New Y ork
| fllltla, OF which body he was chaplain.
| Seven thousand men and 1900 teams
| pre- at work in northern Dakota, build
ling the Manitoba railroad. The force
(ps distributed over distance OF 125
lmiles.
\ Alaw suit involving several million
X dollars, is about so be commenced
against Jay Gould and Russell Sage, as
trustees of the consolidated mortgage
on the Kansas Pacific railroad, by for
elgn holders OF bonds issued under the
mortgage.
Mitchell to Sioux Falls-Here's look
at you over the air line and congratu-
latlng sou on your close connection
with the trade center OF South Dakota.
Come ovef and do your shopping, and
see the sights once in whiIe.-Mit-
chell Republican.
The Press Il, Dalotaian thinks peo-
in the territory have no occasion to
celebrate the fourth Of July while they
are the subjects Of such political op-
preston. Well, how would it do to
get together and snake faces" at the
administration fletcher Blade
| d. r. Locke says "There is but one
evil thing in the United States that is
above law-one evil that is sacred
one evil that the leading politicians
are afraid to touch, and that one evil is
liquor, the greatest curse that af1licts
humanity, thb one curse that includes
all others.
| The war on the saloons at Council
Bluffs has begun in earnest. link &
Gosselin, who have something like two
dozen suits pending against the drug
gists of this county, assisted by Jacob
Sims, as local attorney, are behind Che
suits, and promise to push them for all
there is in them.-Sioux City journal,
i Nothing is more remarkable in the
entire scope of American newspaper
enterprise than the eagerness manifes-
ted by the reading public for anything
i from the pen Of DR.. Talmage. The
! Brooklyn divine is, beyond comparison,
the most popular speaker and writer on
thiscontinent. Publishers who crafty
the public appetite for his productions
are wise in their day and generation.
"To discontinue an advertisement"
says John Wanamaker, the largest adj
vertiser in the world, sis like taking
down your sign. If you want to do
business, you must let the public know
!, It, Standing advertisements, when
changed frequently, are cheaper and
better than reading notices. They look
more substantial and business like, and
inspire confidence. l would as soon
think Of doing business without clerks
as without advertising"
i Speaking of the murder Of Gambriel,
j editor OF the Sword and Sheaf, at Jack
) son, Miss, the Aberdeen Pioneer says:
"'rhe liquor interest seems determined
to suppress free speech by a resort to
assassination. It must do this in order
!; to preserve itself, When the slave
power reached this stage, the American
| people rose up in their wrath and de-
stroyed slavery. The whisky interest
\ will do well to profit by that historic
example. What the people Of this re-
public have done in the one emergency
they will be very likely to do in the
other
II The following is taken from the re-
port of the Grand lodge /. 0. o. T..
at their recent meeting at Grand
, Forks:
The number Of lodges in the terrific
Try is 81, ten Of these having been Or
ganized during the past year. There
are 1890 active members, with 667 iu-
itations during the year; 10 members
have been relieved and II brothers bu-
ried by the order; s widows families
were assisted; GA week benefits have
been paid; the total amount paid for
relief by lodges is $44, 1889; cash IN
treasury May l, 1887, S2,469.S4; current
expenses OF subordinate lodges seper-
ate from charities was $3S,32827; the
funds invested by subordinate lodges
amount to $s37, O72.26
What True Merit VIII! Do.
The unprecedented sale Of 'Boschee's
German Syrup" within a few years, has
astonlshed the world: 1t is without